By IANS
Srinagar : A top militant of the Hizbul Mujahideen and his aide were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district, police said Sunday.
Farooq Ahmad Dar alias Hanief Khan, the financial chief of HM, as the militant outfit is widely known, and Javaid Iqbal were killed late Saturday in Noorpora village in Pulwama, 42 km from here, a police official said.
Troops of 42 Rashtriya Rifles, the Central Reserve Police Force and the Special Operations Group of the police surrounded a house in Noorpora after receiving information about his presence, the officer told IANS.
The militants were asked to lay down their weapons. But they fired at the security forces, sparking a gunfight. In the end, both militants were killed, he said.